'Two Jimmies," says Holly Laessig with a laugh. She and Jess Wolfe have settled on the same drink, the Jimmy El Camino, after deciding together which flavor combinations sounded most appetizing on the General Greene's drink menu. "[It's] a spicy, swe...
Better Than: Watching porn alone at home. The "WARNING: MATURE CONTENT" sign in Radio City Music Hall's lobby last night was there for a reason. "Fucking sexy New York," said Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. the Weeknd, about halfway through the first of his t...
Prior to the internet, people had to write hate mail to their least-favorite celebrities and musicians. Now, they can just leave hateful comments directly to them. Here's what famous musicians have to say about that: See also: What Famous Musicians ...
See also: First Look: CBGB Movie Poster Is Your Worst Fear Realized1. Its depiction of Hilly Kristal We'll start with what they got right: Hilly Kristal was an extremely giving and generous man.To its credit, CBGB the movie shows ample evidence of th...
Fan, I just got my degree in Secondary English Education. I'm just substitute teaching right now getting more experience before I jump into teaching full time. I am also an avid drummer and I am in a band here in Kansas. My band has been together for...
Back home, she explained, you could automatically tell who was alternative and who was a square, based simply on the way they were dressed. In New York, it's different. "Everything's blended together," she said. "There's no way to tell who's mainst...
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Monday, 10/7: Earl Sweatshirt + Domo Genesis + Vince Staples Bowery Ballroom 9 p.m., $20/$25 When we first met Earl Sweatshirt, he was but a 16-year-o...
In short: "I'm just being Miley" has segued into "I'm just being a walking wet dream of a dissertation for a pop culture sociologist," and all of this came to a glorious, table-turning head for this season's Disney Girl Gone Bad on SNL. See also: M...
Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future Monday Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future plays Bowery Ballroom. While O.F. are unapologetically a product in both image and sound of their L.A. roots, it's notable how many important moments for the crew have happened rig...
See also: Whoever the "Real" Drake Is, He Doesn't Matter In his video, Drake welcomes the audience into a gaudy 1985-world in which he's surrounded by metrosexual men before men were metrosexual and blurred-out females (aka Drake's parad...
They may just be the Danny Elfmans' of Italy, thanks to numerous spooky and seminal film scores, including Dario Argento's 1977 classic Suspiria (ranked by this paper at #100 on a list of the 100 greatest films made in the 20th century); 1975's Profo...
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Friday, 10/4: Blondie + X Roseland Ballroom 8pm, $49.50 The punk band who deftly integrated disco, hip-hop, and new wave well before popular music ...
Gap Dream's Gabe Fulvimar Gap Dream's Gabe Fulvimar has had a surreal couple of years. Last December, he emailed a sample of his lo-fi glam pop to Fullerton, California's DIY visionaries Burger Records, who offered to put out his self-titled debut...
Andrew W.K. is going to be handling vocal duties for Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg at Irving Plaza. Now, we know a lot of people can't figure this guy out. Is he a motivational speaker? Musician? TV presenter? Maybe he should just pick one profession and...
See also: Week in Review: A Collection of Preposterously Foxy Debbie Harry PhotosYou still live in New York City, and it's very different from the mid-70s. Does its current incarnation fill you with hope or despair? I don't know if I'd use either of ...
We caught with Dabeast over email to discuss the new lineup, the new album, and the band's future.It's been two years since we've last checked in on Mannequin Pussy. What's changed for the band since then? The only thing that's the same as it was two...
Better Than: Drunkenly singing Joan Jett's songs in any public place that is not a Joan Jett concert. "Hey New York! What the fuck is with this feedback?!" Joan Jett became pretty angry early in her set. After blazing through two songs, Jett quickl...
Goosebumps author R.L. Stine has now inspired a rave. If you were a literate child in the 90s, chances are you spent your evenings getting chills and thrills from author/visionary R.L. Stine's obscenely popular Goosebumps books. With over 300 mill...
In this week's installment, we look back at a few old articles about Hollis, Queens heroes Run-DMC and find 1) a 1985 feature by the always on-point Greg Tate about a near-riot at a Run-DMC show at the Beacon and the complicated racial politics of th...
Average White Band This Thursday funk favorites Average White Band take the stage at BB Kings average white bandness. While their songs have echoed through the decades both on radio as well as through climactic scenes in film and television, their...
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